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shard92

Posted 10 October 2006 - 11:40 AM

shard92

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since it is a laptop you should also check the sony website for that model to see if there are drivers available for windows xp... if not you may be able to put it on the computer ( if it meets the requirements as above) but may not be able to get all components working without drivers.... if you have a windows xp disk you can put it in the laptop and run the compatibility check also...

Matt T

Posted 11 October 2006 - 01:57 AM

I believe there is a Compatitabilty Tester avaliable from Microsoft for Windows XP, you might have some luck looking around their website. Or I might be thinking about Windows Vista.

You could also try a free operating system like Linux if you don't already have Windows XP. You can try it out first using Live CD's that install nothing on your computer but are really great because they run from your CD drive and you can get the feel of Linux. The only downside is the speed of the Live CD is much much slower than the actual operating system. There are some good free Linux CD places that send CD's worldwide that come up in a Google Search.

SRX660

Posted 14 October 2006 - 04:07 AM

In reality you cannot use microsoft's minimum requirements to really run XP on an older computer. XP does not like less than 256 mb of memory. Even at 256 i find it uses the swap file way too much so i always install 512mb. Processors ? Well i really would not install on less than a 1 gig processor and even then if you are video editing it can be pretty slow. I have had a 1 gig computer and a 2.2 gig computer side-by-side( exact same setups) and it shocked me how much longer the 1 giger took to open programs and run some of them.